Dersch, Catherine^[1]

1850 -

• Name	Dersch, Catherine
  Geboren	Mrz 1850	Marburg / Germany
  Geschlecht	weiblich
  Personen-Kennung	I16398	Vennekohl
  Zuletzt bearbeitet am	24 Jan 2018

  
  

  Vater	Dersch, Jacob,   geb. Germany ,   gest. 1872
  Mutter	Jesberg, Elisabeth,   geb. 17 Aug 1818, Marburg / Germany ,   gest. 21 Jan 1908  (Alter 89 Jahre)
  Verheiratet	J  [2]
  Familien-Kennung	F256	Familienblatt  |  Familientafel

  
  

  Familie	Schrage, William,   geb. geschätzt 1850
  Zuletzt bearbeitet am	24 Jan 2018
  Familien-Kennung	F2887	Familienblatt  |  Familientafel

  
  

• Quellen

  [S3] Sonstiges, http://www.drapers.us/Jesberg/. Catherine, at the age of 22, married a furniture salesman, preacher, William Schrage on 31 Oct 1872 in St. Joseph. They had 7 children between 1871 and 1888 in Missouri. In 1900 they were living in Monroe Township, Andrew Co., MO not far from St. Joseph. They are said to have traded their farm/home with an orchard, etc. for land in Oklahoma, sight unseen and were not happy with the dry grassland they found. William was founder and minister of a country church near Orlando, OK, the German Methodist Church. His daughters Minnie and Lillie grew up singing in church and both had beautiful voices. When someone was sick, they were sent to care for them. [S3] Sonstiges, http://www.drapers.us/Jesberg/, 1857. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Jacob Dersch and had 4 children in Hesse between 1866 and 1854. They came over in 1857 and had two more children in St. Joseph, MO in 1860 and 1864. In 1857, William?s oldest child, Elizabeth, her husband Jacob Dersch, and 4 of their children rejoined the family. They sailed from Bremen, Germany to New Orleans.